Jennifer Zhang - TEACHING DESIGN

Course: GRDE307- Design Systems I

Year Level: Graphic Design Juniors

Project Details:

Each team of students collaborated and designed a conceptual campaign for their selected accessibility-oriented organization, along with three promotional campaign deliverables to spread the word about their campaign. Their goal was to raise awareness on one of the four provided categories of accessibility— hearing, visual, mobility, and cognitive.

STUDENT EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE

Campaign: See For Yourself

Collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind

To visually convey how visual impairments are perceived and to spread awareness of various visual impairments and how they impact sight.

Designers: Ben Gaba, Grace Zinecker, Kiara Beckett, and Max Mazgelis

Deliverables

EXAMPLE

Campaign: Keeping mementos, Keeping mementos

Collaborating with The Alzheimer's Association

Spread awareness about the early detection of Alzheimer's disease and provide a memento box and memory game that help people to protect their memories.

Designers: Ellinor Edstrom, Alicia Gentes, Julian Howland, Miguel Villaman

Deliverables

Memory Matching Game

Journal

Promotional Posters

Instagram Post

Project Details:

Each team had to research a selected design period and choose key artists and designers from that design period to be featured in a proposed 10’x10’ by 8’ high conceptual booth space. Also, they designed additional deliverables to convey the story of their selected design period and to promote their booth exhibition.

STUDENT EXAMPLE

Design Period: Art Nouveau

Designers: Maya Davies, Ava Moran, Miguel Villaman, Grace Zinecker

Booth exhibition design

Interactive Touchscreen Prototype

Explainer Video part of booth exhibition | Music: GREEN by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Course: GRDE307- Experiential Graphic Design

Year Level: Graphic Design Juniors

Project Details:

Students will create and design a meaningful, compelling, and educational small-scale pop-up event for a student club at a specific location on the RIT campus.

STUDENT EXAMPLES